Commonwealth Case Law
Interights has a database of UK Human Rights Case Law online at
http://www.interights.org/ccl/.
Commonwealth Case Law features national court decisions within
Commonwealth jurisdictions.

This site offers two search options. Use the Quick Search to query by
keywords, phrase, boolean or free text. The second search option is a
Combined Search using more than one search term. Combined searching
also provides a list of keywords to choose from and several ways in which
to search can be narrowed.

Search results include the case, jurisdiction, date, keywords and a
summary of the decision. Results are listed ten to the page. Click on the
case name and you'll get more details about the case and a listing of
which lawyers were involved in the case.

You can also browse this site by country with a drop- down list ranging
from Antigua to Zimbabwe. Cases are listed alphabetically with the Court,
date, keywords and a link to the decision. Another way to browse is to
select from the drop-down list of recent additions to the site, ranging
from today to this year.

If you found the Commonwealth Case Law database interesting, you may wish
to set up the International Case Law database at
http://www.interights.org/icl/.
Here you can search by case number, subject, state, treaty, or organ. You
can also search by date of decision.

Resident Agent Information
(Heads-Up: Our Editor warns us that this page may cause errors in IE
versions 5 and higher. We tried it in Opera and Mozilla, and it
worked fine.)

Attorney Terry
Berger has updated his page of Resident Agent Information page at
http://www.residentagentinfo.com/. His list includes Washington, D.C.,
all fifty states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It also include
several international government sites.

US locations are listed alphabetically, with Web sites provided for those
that offer searching online. Searching and results vary with individual
sites. For
the locations that do not provide online searching, Berger furnishes
contact and cost information. (Only four of the 50 U.S. states charge to
provide a
corporation's resident agent online, and two of those will provide the
information free over the phone.)

Information provided on this page varies. For those jurisdictions that
provide complete information online, only the URL is offered. For those
that don't, a
variety of information is offered including phone numbers, fax, e-mail,
retrieval instructions for getting the information by mail and in person,
and when the information will be online (if ever.)

Canadian, New Zealand and United Kingdom sites follow the US entries. The
site concludes with US statistics and Berger's own contact information.
Handy list.

Divorce Research Center
This portal, at
http://www.divorcesource.com/search/search.html, reports having
thousands of sources for information pertaining to divorce. That number
sounds about right to me. Information sites include case analysis and case
law as well as Web pages and related articles.

The left column starts with resources such as finding professional help
and how to stop and start a divorce. There are additional sources such as
links to divorce laws, an index of divorce articles and available books
("Divorce for Dummies"?) and a divorce dictionary. Still in the left
column are Products & Services and a long list of message centers,
including a drop-down list of state message centers. (Message centers are
discussion boards; they're not official state outlets or anything like
that.)

The right column features a keyword search engine and a drop-down box of
all categories on DivorceSource. I selected a category and clicked on go.
Items are listed first by relevancy and then by date -- annotation is for
the most part very good. Just above the items is a state drop-down box
which I thought would narrow my category by selected state. It didn't work
and took me off on a different trek, so be aware of what that search does.
I returned to the front page and viewed the most popular categories with
sub-heading, following by state-specific downloads.

Trademarkbots.com
There is a site for monitoring trademarks at
http://www.trademarkbots.com/.
This site features bots that mine various data sources on a regular basis
for selected trademark phrases.

Trademarkbots requires registration but does offer a 3-week free trial.
During the trial, you can monitor a maximum of 3 trademarks and receive
reports back in the form of e-mail alerts. The information in the alerts
is printable or can be e-mailed to someone else for further action. You
can get cost information at
http://www.trademarkbots.com/tmb/pages/services.asp.

Cornell Gets Grant From Mellon Foundation
to Digitize Its Catalog
Cornell University Library has received an $830,000 grant from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation to digitize the remaining items in its card catalog
and add them to its online catalog. This project will add more than
275,000 bibliographic records to Cornell's online catalog. The records
will encompass a large number of humanities and social science titles.
This conversion project is expected to be completed in early 2005.

Internet Scout Projects Gets Funded by
the National Science Foundation
Last week, the Internet Scout Project announced that it would be creating
a new series of reports, courtesy the funding of the National Science
Foundation. These new reports will cover the best new and newly-discovered
resources in science, technology, engineering, and math. You can get
current and back issues of the existing Scout Report (which provides more
general resources) at
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/.